Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
suomen kielen professori / professor of Finnish language
mlhelas@utu.fi +358 29 450 2802 +358 46 923 3816 Arcanuminkuja 1 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0090-9997 |
Areas of expertise
Professor of Finnish language; interactional linguistics; syntax; spoken discourse; interactions with aphasic speakers; language acquisition; digital interaction; computer-mediated communication; usage-based linguistics, discourse-functional linguistics
Professor of Finnish language; interactional linguistics; syntax; spoken discourse; interactions with aphasic speakers; language acquisition; digital interaction; computer-mediated communication; usage-based linguistics, discourse-functional linguistics
Biography
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo received her MA in Finnish language at the University of Helsinki and PhD in linguistics at the University of California Santa Barbara (1997). Since 2005, she has worked as a professor of Finnish language at the University of Turku.
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo received her MA in Finnish language at the University of Helsinki and PhD in linguistics at the University of California Santa Barbara (1997). Since 2005, she has worked as a professor of Finnish language at the University of Turku.
Research
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo's research interests lie in the area of interactional linguistics where she has focused on the relationship between syntax and conversational organization. She is the author of Syntax in the Making (Benjamins, 2001) as well as numerous research articles. She is the co-editor of Grammar from the Human Perspective (together with Lyle Campbell, Benjamins, 2006), Discourses in interaction (together with Marjut Johansson, Mia Raitaniemi and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Benjamins, 2010) and ) and Subjects in constructions: canonical and non-canonical (together with Tuomas Huumo, Benjamins, 2015). She has co-edited a special issue on Discourse participants in interaction (together with Robert Englebretson, J of Pragmatics, 2014) and on Units in responsive turns (together with Elise Kärkkäinen and Tomoko Endo, J of Pragmatics, 2017).
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo's research interests lie in the area of interactional linguistics where she has focused on the relationship between syntax and conversational organization. She is the author of Syntax in the Making (Benjamins, 2001) as well as numerous research articles. She is the co-editor of Grammar from the Human Perspective (together with Lyle Campbell, Benjamins, 2006), Discourses in interaction (together with Marjut Johansson, Mia Raitaniemi and Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen, Benjamins, 2010) and ) and Subjects in constructions: canonical and non-canonical (together with Tuomas Huumo, Benjamins, 2015). She has co-edited a special issue on Discourse participants in interaction (together with Robert Englebretson, J of Pragmatics, 2014) and on Units in responsive turns (together with Elise Kärkkäinen and Tomoko Endo, J of Pragmatics, 2017).
Teaching
Finnish grammar; discourse and interaction; interactional linguistics; digital interaction
Finnish grammar; discourse and interaction; interactional linguistics; digital interaction
Publications 
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- Children's Early Actions in Learning Language: a Study of Proto-words and Pointing Gestures in Interaction between One-year-old Child and Parent (2010)
- SKY Journal of Linguistics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Discourse and the interactional turn (2010)
- Pragmatics and Beyond New Series
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Discourses in Interaction (2010)
- Pragmatics and Beyond New Series
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Interactional Perspectives on Discourse – Proceedings from the Organization in Discourse 3 Conference (2010) Anglicana Turkuensia No. 30 ISSN 1236-4754 Raitaniemi Mia, Tanskanen Sanna-Kaisa, Helasvuo Marja-Liisa, Johansson Marjut
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Mikä subjekti on? (2010)
- Virittäjä
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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